That would be great Paul. I'm looking forward for that patch! Martin > >I have looked into this and I believe there is room for improvement (there >always is). We should probably offer various strategies for reading media >based on different factors. For instance reading a small file with NIO takes >longer then reading it with standard IO in Java, but reading a large file >with NIO is much faster then in standard IO. > >Paul > >On 10/30/06, Martin Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Hi, >> >> I don't know exactly how the filestream mechanism works, but it seems to >> scans the whole file before it starts serving. >> We use Red5 for streaming quite large FLV files (200 ~ 700MB) and a >> quite large archive (currently 120GB and growing every day). Those files >> are kept on a fileserver. >> >> Red5 scans the whole file (for metadata?) every time it's requested. >> Isn't it possible to create some kind of cache for this procedure? >> If this feature is implemented; Red5 is a serious competitor for M$ >> Streaming server :) >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Martin Schipper > _______________________________________________ Red5 mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/red5_osflash.org
